The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently filed a lawsuit against Olympia Construction, an Alabama company that develops houses for families and senior citizens throughout the South. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, in 2011, the project superintendent and a supervisor at one Olympia Construction’s work sites in Selma, Alabama routinely addressed and referred to its three… Read More
Alabama’s Employment-at-Will
What does it mean that Alabama is an employment-at-will state? The State of Alabama does not have any laws pertaining to the hiring and firing of an employee (with a few limited exceptions). An employer can hire anybody it wants and fire anybody it wants as long as it does not discriminate against the employee. Discrimination is based… Read More